On Wednesday an earthquake of 4.4 magnitude on the Richter scale was reported in the Maltese Islands. As far as we are aware, no damage was caused, yet it would is appropriate to consider a number of...

I dare use the title to this piece for one reason alone and it is certainly not out of any disrespect to people who have every right to hold different views on the issue of the immigration crisis in...

In August forty-nine years ago, the then Soviet Union invaded the former Czechoslovakia.  In protest against the Soviet Union’s invasion of his country, Prague-born Jan Palach, 21,...

As it changes its operating patterns, terrorism in Europe is succeeding to massacre innocent people. But in no way does it seem like it is reaching any kind of target that a jihad supposedly tries to...

In Sunday’s Illum dated 12 August, the Nationalist Party candidate and lawyer Joe Ellis wrote a damning article wherein he exhorted Frank Portelli and Adrian Delia to quit the...

I leave the island for two weeks (not to go back to my own country, don't get too excited) and all hell breaks loose. Like a toddler that has been left alone with its mother's makeup bag, common sense...

I was recently asked in a live TV debate why I had decided to run for the PN leadership. Before I could say much, I was also asked many questions about innuendoes and falsehoods reported and repeated...

For us to be the choice of the majority, we need to earn that through our virtues and not because of Labour's deficiencies. We need to work on our virtues, revive the values on which they were built,...

When Joseph Muscat launched his "best times still to come" slogan it was on the back of strong criticism from the Opposition and a pressing sense of lack in various areas of social and essential...

The latest wave of terrorist attacks in Spain and Finland occurred at a time when Europe is enjoying its last weeks of a particularly hot summer season. They came when Europeans are proudly applying...